Lisa Miller
The reason many will choose to end their lives is because they have not met Christ crucified. We must not be afraid to preach the truth that because He suffered, suffering now has eternal value. The Lord suffered so that no suffering is ever meaningless, and the only real “sweet death”...
has made us necessarily doomed to damnation, so that he seems to delight in the torture of the wretched and is more deserving of hate than of love. If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, who shows so much anger and harshness, could be merciful and just, there would be...
Krissy Robinson September 24, 2004 UNIV 3581: Faith Reason & Imagination Essay#1 When I first enrolled in this course I was unsure of what to expect. I was unsure of what Faith Reason and Imagination were; when it came to the educational realm of the word. I say that, because Faith and...
Charles Gordon was in many ways eccentric and could have used some greater wisdom in some of the things he said that may have angered superiors for no good reason. Perhaps he did have a sort of death wish and his greatest tragedy was his closest followers in Khartoum, who had believed in...
“I know that doing so ultimately brought me peace,” I answered, “but I’d like to know your reason.” “In the Bible, there is a power in naming,” Fr. Martin explained. “In one of the creation accounts in Genesis, for example, Adam is given the task of naming all of the ...
There are various actions that can be considered bad faith in insurance. Some common examples include: Unreasonable denial of a valid claim: When an insurance company denies a claim that is covered by the policy without a valid reason or justification, it is acting in bad faith. This could ...
” I could accept that. There were plenty of things I believed God had done or determined that I either couldn’t understand or hadn’t the information to even begin trying to comprehend them. But what bothered me more is that this didn’t seem to be the reason given until very ...
The second reason some people teach that faith is a gift is because they think that faith is a meritorious work. If faith is a good work, and people are the ones who believe, then it logically follows that people contribute some sort of good work to the reception of eternal life. But ...
Astrology vs Science & Reason | Which side are you on? A few months back came the shocking news of the Palkar family suicide in Pune, where Arun Palkar(40), a well off electrical contractor consumed sleeping pills along with his wife (37) and children aged 11 & 6. He did so because...